Google has removed two new malicious dropper apps that have been detected on the Play Store for Android, one of which posed as a lifestyle app and was caught distributing the Xenomorph banking malware. "Xenomorph is a trojan that steals credentials from banking applications on users' devices," Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Himanshu Sharma and Viral Gandhi said in an analysis … [Read more...] about Malicious Google Play Store App Spotted Distributing Xenomorph Banking Trojan
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Microsoft Blames Russian Hackers for Prestige Ransomware Attacks on Ukraine and Poland
Microsoft on Thursday attributed the recent spate of ransomware incidents targeting transportation and logistics sectors in Ukraine and Poland to a threat cluster that shares overlaps with the Russian state-sponsored Sandworm group. The attacks, which were disclosed by the tech giant last month, involved a strain of previously undocumented malware called Prestige and is said to … [Read more...] about Microsoft Blames Russian Hackers for Prestige Ransomware Attacks on Ukraine and Poland
New UEFI Firmware Flaws Reported in Several Lenovo Notebook Models
PC maker Lenovo has addressed yet another set of three shortcomings in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware affecting several Yoga, IdeaPad, and ThinkBook devices. "The vulnerabilities allow disabling UEFI Secure Boot or restoring factory default Secure Boot databases (incl. dbx): all simply from an OS," Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET explained in a series … [Read more...] about New UEFI Firmware Flaws Reported in Several Lenovo Notebook Models
VMware Warns of 3 New Critical Flaws Affecting Workspace ONE Assist Software
VMware has patched five security flaws affecting its Workspace ONE Assist solution, some of which could be exploited to bypass authentication and obtain elevated permissions. Topping the list, are three critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2022-31685, CVE-2022-31686, and CVE-2022-31687. All the shortcomings are rated 9.8 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring … [Read more...] about VMware Warns of 3 New Critical Flaws Affecting Workspace ONE Assist Software
Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After 9.7 Million Customers Exposed in Ransomware Hack
Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million of its current and former customers were accessed following a ransomware incident. The attack, according to the company, was detected in its IT network on October 12 in a manner that it said was "consistent with the precursors to a ransomware event," prompting it to isolate its … [Read more...] about Medibank Refuses to Pay Ransom After 9.7 Million Customers Exposed in Ransomware Hack
Researchers Uncover 29 Malicious PyPI Packages Targeted Developers with W4SP Stealer
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered 29 packages in Python Package Index (PyPI), the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language, that aim to infect developers' machines with a malware called W4SP Stealer. "The main attack seems to have started around October 12, 2022, slowly picking up steam to a concentrated effort around October 22," … [Read more...] about Researchers Uncover 29 Malicious PyPI Packages Targeted Developers with W4SP Stealer
Microsoft Warns of Uptick in Hackers Leveraging Publicly-Disclosed 0-Day Vulnerabilities
Microsoft is warning of an uptick in the nation-state and criminal actors increasingly leveraging publicly-disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities for breaching target environments. The tech giant, in its 114-page Digital Defense Report, said it has "observed a reduction in the time between the announcement of a vulnerability and the commoditization of that vulnerability," making it … [Read more...] about Microsoft Warns of Uptick in Hackers Leveraging Publicly-Disclosed 0-Day Vulnerabilities
Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees
The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a new campaign aimed at Indian government organizations with trojanized versions of a two-factor authentication solution called Kavach. "This group abuses Google advertisements for the purpose of malvertising to distribute backdoored versions of Kavach multi-authentication (MFA) applications," Zscaler ThreatLabz researcher … [Read more...] about Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees
Researchers Find Links b/w Black Basta Ransomware and FIN7 Hackers
A new analysis of tools put to use by the Black Basta ransomware operation has identified ties between the threat actor and the FIN7 (aka Carbanak) group. This link "could suggest either that Black Basta and FIN7 maintain a special relationship or that one or more individuals belong to both groups," cybersecurity firm SentinelOne said in a technical write-up shared with The … [Read more...] about Researchers Find Links b/w Black Basta Ransomware and FIN7 Hackers
New TikTok Privacy Policy Confirms Chinese Staff Can Access European Users’ Data
Popular short-form video-sharing service TikTok is revising its privacy policy for European users to make it explicitly clear that user data can be accessed by some employees from across the world, including China. The ByteDance-owned platform, which currently stores European user data in the U.S. and Singapore, said the revision is part of its ongoing data governance efforts … [Read more...] about New TikTok Privacy Policy Confirms Chinese Staff Can Access European Users’ Data